Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1887-07-14

are bad men, but whether they are good
or bad citizens here depends upon the
condition of the social soil into which
they are transplanted. A country that
is properly governed could absorb an
immigration wholly of convicts and
bless the convicts instead of being curs-
ell by the convicts. This, however,
exhibits faith in his fellowmen on the
part of one who asserts it that very few
have yet attained, and hence such an
assertion seems absurd to most men.
But the future will demonstrate its
truth. The Forum for July contains
an article by Prof. Boyesen on the
Dangers of Unrestricted Immigra-
ton" which throws much ght on this
subject. Speaking of what one sees in
the older and more thickly settled
states, he says:
$50 long as immigration greatly improved
their condition by crossing the Atlantic, they
felt kindly toward the country of their ad&p-
tion, and became. as rule, good American
citizens. Especially was this the case with
Germans and ScandinavIans, to whom my OBJ
servation has been chiefly confined. Their
children We're proud of their American birth.
often Anglicised their names, and felt no
particular attachment to the fatherland
beyond the sea. But during the last five or
six years change has come over the spirit
of the immigrant. He now finds the struggle
| for existence here no less severe than it was
in the Old country. The man
with two strong arms and two empty pockets
has not, during recent times, been able to
gain an independence in half "a. dozen years
by frugality and toll. He has to hire himself
out as farm hand just as he did i'm the old
country; and, though he has earned better
wages, he has also been required to work
much harder, and his expenditures for the
necessities of life have been greatly in excess
of what he has been accustomed to. The
consequence is that instead of feeling under
obligation to his adopted country, he has q
sense of bitterness and disappointment. The
buoy ant and sanguine spirit which was so
noticeable among the same class ten or fifteen
years ago is now rarely to he met with, and
the enthusiasm for American institutions,
which impressed me so deeply in the west
during the first years of my sojourn there,
cent years."
If one observes closely to he will find
that these very draw backs that embit-
ter and disappoint the latter lmporta-
ton strike right at the root of the faith
in our institutions of those whose par
ents came here years ago.
This must ever be the case, in all
countries, in all times, and under all
forms OF government, SO long as nat
ural opportunities are mere things of
barter and sale. any of your readers
are patriotic enough to care to inform
themselves on these subjects, let them
get copy of g Social Problems and
turn to the XI. chapter, entitled
dumping Garbage" and he will learn
how they make the scum over there
and why it does US more harm than
good here.
Our mugginses at Springfield have
passed an act to abridge the freedom of
speech in Illinois. OF course, this is not
the title they give 1t, but that is what
it amounts to. You are not to speak,
write or print anything against the ex-
isting order of things on heavy pains
and penalties If anything should ensue
from your expressions that would dam
age uppertendom at all. Then thew
have adopted the alien act that Mis-
souri, threw away a decade or more ago.
Our opinion is that it will not be long
before they will find out that they have
cornered themselves worse than Corri-
gan, Simeoni and Mr.. Pecci have done.
That reminds me that it will be in or.
der to shoot off the big excommunica-
ton gun at DIR. McGlynn tomorrow
the 4th of July-to let all Americans
know that the oath of allegiance to the
U. S. is a farce and lie if taken by
Catholic foreigner, and that he is still
answerable and under the authority Of
a foreign potentate in spite of the SOL
emn renunciation required in his oath.
Let her boom! That gun will do more
killing at the breech than the muzzle.
FARMER.
Murrayville, ILL.,, July Sd, 1887.